Ryann Carroll Professor Sherry English Composition 1 13 February 2013 Interview with Dr. Johnson One field that I have been interested in majoring in for quite some time now is a mixture of biology and psychology. I would like to have a career in neurobiology when I graduate from college. In order to get a better understanding of the types of writing I will be exposed to and must utilize myself daily, I sought the advice and expertise of Dr. Jennifer Johnson. Dr. Johnson is a psychology professor at Bloomsburg University. Aside from being a professor, she also works as a researcher and studies how the mind and behavior work. The spectrum of psychology she most associates with is experimental psychology. She also is a facilitator of Brain Awareness Week, an organization that promotes elementary education about the brain and its functions. Dr. Johnson regretted to inform me that not all of the writing that she has to do is extremely exciting. She told me that she spends most of her time responding to emails from students and colleagues. Another type of writing that occupies a lot of time Dr. Johnson’s time is writing for grant funding for the community service project Brain Awareness Week. An additional type of writing Dr. Johnson utilizes in her line of work is her scholarly research for publication. More recently she has been revising the findings of the research she studied for her doctorate for publication in scholarly articles. The daily purposes of Dr. Johnson’s writing are to aid students whom have questions about their courses and assignments via email. When writing information that is intended for publication there is several purposes. She says that one purpose is to share research findings with the scientific community. The other purpose for publication of research is if the results were not supportive of a hypothesis, the publication of those results saves another researcher from wasting time and resources on an experiment that has already be tested. The grant writing Dr. Johnson does is important because it is intended to persuade people to donate money to help fund her community service program, Brain Awareness Week. Most of the writing that crosses Dr. Johnson’s desk on a daily basis include scholarly articles on up and coming topics in the field of psychology that interest her. Another most frequent type of writing Dr. Johnson sees is the writing of her students. Most of the student writing is by upper level psychology students writing their APA manuscripts. At the conclusion of our conversation, Dr. Johnson shared the reason she writes and her engagement. All she had to say was “It’s always nice when it’s done!” in a relieved voice. She described the writing she does as very laborious but she feels accomplished when she sees writing she’s put so much time and effort into researching and producing finally published for the public to view. She is also overcome with achievement when she receives the grant money she worked so hard to get to fund a project she is passionate about. I learned that the writing that I will need to do in my desired field is not always fun, however the engagement of my writing will be the most rewarding part.
Professor Sherry
English Composition 1
13 February 2013
Interview with Dr. Johnson
One field that I have been interested in majoring in for quite some time now is a mixture of biology and psychology. I would like to have a career in neurobiology when I graduate from college. In order to get a better understanding of the types of writing I will be exposed to and must utilize myself daily, I sought the advice and expertise of Dr. Jennifer Johnson.
Dr. Johnson is a psychology professor at Bloomsburg University. Aside from being a professor, she also works as a researcher and studies how the mind and behavior work. The spectrum of psychology she most associates with is experimental psychology. She also is a facilitator of Brain Awareness Week, an organization that promotes elementary education about the brain and its functions.
Dr. Johnson regretted to inform me that not all of the writing that she has to do is extremely exciting. She told me that she spends most of her time responding to emails from students and colleagues. Another type of writing that occupies a lot of time Dr. Johnson’s time is writing for grant funding for the community service project Brain Awareness Week. An additional type of writing Dr. Johnson utilizes in her line of work is her scholarly research for publication. More recently she has been revising the findings of the research she studied for her doctorate for publication in scholarly articles.
The daily purposes of Dr. Johnson’s writing are to aid students whom have questions about their courses and assignments via email. When writing information that is intended for publication there is several purposes. She says that one purpose is to share research findings with the scientific community. The other purpose for publication of research is if the results were not supportive of a hypothesis, the publication of those results saves another researcher from wasting time and resources on an experiment that has already be tested. The grant writing Dr. Johnson does is important because it is intended to persuade people to donate money to help fund her community service program, Brain Awareness Week.
Most of the writing that crosses Dr. Johnson’s desk on a daily basis include scholarly articles on up and coming topics in the field of psychology that interest her. Another most frequent type of writing Dr. Johnson sees is the writing of her students. Most of the student writing is by upper level psychology students writing their APA manuscripts.
At the conclusion of our conversation, Dr. Johnson shared the reason she writes and her engagement. All she had to say was “It’s always nice when it’s done!” in a relieved voice. She described the writing she does as very laborious but she feels accomplished when she sees writing she’s put so much time and effort into researching and producing finally published for the public to view. She is also overcome with achievement when she receives the grant money she worked so hard to get to fund a project she is passionate about.
I learned that the writing that I will need to do in my desired field is not always fun, however the engagement of my writing will be the most rewarding part.